Nitric Oxide in Developing Plant Stress Resilience

Dr. M. Iqbal R. Khan currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Botany, and Deputy Director of The Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (CESD), Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. Also, an Adjunct Professor at the Korea University, Seoul, South Korea and Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. Exposure of agricultural crops to environmental stress–induced adversities pose a serious threat to global food and nutritional security. Dr. Khan research has primarily focused on major staple crops, particularly wheat, with the objective of reducing their susceptibility to environmental stress under projected future climatic pressures and contributing toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Dr. Khan has published more than 100 articles, edited 11 Books, and authored 14 Book Chapters in reputed Publishers. He has an h-index of 57 and i10-index of 98, with more than 14600 citations to his credit as per Google Scholar as per bibliometric data in Jan 2026. He has been recognized as Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in Animal and Plant Science category and is in the list of Top 2% Scientists (Elsevier) of the World (2021-2025). Dr. Khan has been awarded with The National Academy of Sciences (NASI) - Membership in Plant and Agricultural Sciences (2024), and recipient of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Young Associates (2024). Further, his work has attracted prestigious awards, including R.H. Dastur Gold Medal Award-ISPP (2023), Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award-NASI (2021), and Young Scientist Award-ISPP (2018). He is on the Editorial Board of many renowned journals as the Section Editor in Plant and Soil, Associate Editor in Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 3-Biotech, and Plant Physiology Reports. Also served as Guest Editor in the Agriculture, Frontiers in Plant Science, Sustainability and Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.Dr. Noushina Iqbal is currently working as SERB-National Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jamia Hamdard, India. During her PhD, she received the UGC-BSR Fellowship for meritorious student and worked on an UP-CST funded research project. She also got the prestigious Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by CSIR. She has more than 30 peer reviewed international publications and has authored 1 book and edited 3 books. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of hormonal regulation of plant growth with special emphasis on photosynthesis under abiotic stress. The mechanistic approach applied by nutrients and signaling molecules under varied environmental stress is her priority. She deals with crosstalk between hormones for the modulation of nutrient-use efficiency, source-sink relation and abiotic stress tolerance. Dr. Péter Poór is an assistant professor, who has been leading the Plant Stress Physiology and Photosynthesis Research Group at the Department of Plant Biology of the University of Szeged, Hungary since 2017. His main research area is the investigation of plant defense hormones, and a better understanding of plant defense mechanisms, especially in the dark. As a result of his work, he has published more than 80 international scientific publications to date, to which he has received more than 1,000 citations. In addition to his research work, he participates in the lecturer activities of the Department of Plant Biology, including the teaching of plant cell biology, plant anatomy, photosynthesis, and plant stress physiology. His teaching activities were twice recognized with the Golden Chalk Award based on student votes. In addition, he is an active organizer of university public life, as well as takes part in a wide range of scientific dissemination activities and science organization activities. He is the secretary of the Hungarian Free Radical Research Society and a member of the Hungarian Plant Biology Society. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several international journals (e.g. Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation). In 2019, he won the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Science Academy. In 2018, he received the first prize in the Lecture Series of Young Plant Biologists of the Hungarian Plant Biology Society. Antonio Ferrante holds a PhD in advanced technologies in horticultural science from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa Italy. He was a visiting researcher at the University California, Davis, and a visiting teaching professor with ERASMUS program in Cardiff University (2015) and Almeria University (2017) and has been a member of the scientific committee of several international conferences. He has authored more than 200 international publications in peer-reviewed journals.

• 1. Nitric Oxide: Its biosynthesis, and mode of action2. Nitric Oxide signaling in plants under optimal and stressful conditions3. NO and photosynthesis under stress conditions4. Interaction between NO and H2S in plant growth and development under stress5. Regulatory role of nitric oxide in plants and its crosstalk with phytohormones6. Impact of nitric oxide on the managing ROS Metabolism7. Nitric oxide good or bad in adverse climatic conditions8. Nitric oxide as a modulator of oxidative stress and antioxidant metabolism in plant9. Importance of post-translational modification by NO and H2S under abiotic stress10. Crosstalk between RNS, ROS and RSS under abiotic stress11. H2O2 and NO interaction under stress12. Nitric oxide and biotic stress in plants13. Nutrients homeostasis and NO in plants14. Genome editing/genomics/metabolomics/proteomics approaches to manipulate nitric oxide responses15. Advances and Future Prospect of Nitric Oxide in Agriculture